| On IRIX 6.3 the midisynth comes on the applications CD. You must install
it. It is a very good software midi synth I have it running on my O2...
Michael
On
Mon, 15 Dec 1997, Zhenhai Lin wrote:
> Hi,
>
> Thanks a lot for help on Midi. I am not able to find midisynth on IRIX
> 6.3 applications CD. I found patches to midisynth on the IRIX 6.3
> patches CD but it says some base files are missing. I assume I don't
> have the base midisynth to patch on. I wonder if you know what is the CD
> title where I can find midisynch.
>
> Thank you very much!
>
> Zhenhai
>
> John Francis Beahan wrote:
> >
> > On Sun, 14 Dec 1997, Zhenhai Lin wrote:
> >
> > > Dear all:
> > >
> > > I am totally confused about MIDI.
> > >
> > > I wonder how I can play midi sounds on SGI. I heard soundplayer can
> > > handle midi sounds on IRIX6.2( which is what I am using). I tried to
> > > play and it says I don't have a midi port. So I configured a midi port
> > > on my machine but it plays without any sound at all.
> > IRIX6.2-5 can come with a synthesis engine that reads MIDI well and runs
> > in real-time, but It may not come automatically with the computer. I believe
> > you have to request in your IRIX package from Silicon Graphics. At least
> > the last time I was in Mountain View they did a demo for me of the engine
> > and I was somewhat impressed. It is mainly sample-based sounds.
> >
> > >
> > > So is MIDI an idea of controlling an external music instrument? Do I
> > > really absolutely need some kind of external midi devise to play midi
> > > sounds? Is it possible to convert to something that I can play just
> > > using SGI's speaker (such as first convert it to csound file...)
> > MIDI was orginally designed to let synthesizers 'talk' to each other. It
> > is basically a set of commands either having a certain note turned on or
> > a certain note turned off. There are also control commands that can
> > manipulate other parameters of sound synthesis. The misconception often
> > is that MIDI is some form of sound file and it is NOT. It is just a
> > standard communication protocal for synthesizers (that in some ways is
> > hugely out dated, but it is all we got).
> >
> > >
> > > Thank you very much!
> > >
> > > --
> > > Zhenhai Lin
> > > Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
> > > URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~zhenhai
> > > Email: zhenhai@cs.wisc.edu
> > >
> > >
>
> --
> Zhenhai Lin
> Department of Computer Science, University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA
> URL: http://www.cs.wisc.edu/~zhenhai
> Email: zhenhai@cs.wisc.edu
>
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